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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87495, member: 27"]
A recruitment drive is M23's play to keep momentum alive after a drone strike wiped out their military spokesperson and 18 others.

M23's recruitment push in Ishasha
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[*]Colonel Bahati Musanga Erasto urged young people to enlist in M23's ranks.
[*]Erasto serves as M23's parallel-appointed governor of North Kivu.
[*]Families were told to encourage sons and daughters to join up.
[*]Recruits aged 18 and above would head to Rutshuru for training.
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Framing the fight as a cause
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[*]Erasto pitched the conflict as a generational justice struggle.
[*]He accused President Félix Tshisekedi of murdering eastern Congolese communities.
[*]Ngoma's killing didn't end the movement's mission, per his speech.
[*]Even failure to capture the nation wouldn't stop future generations.
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Lt. Col. Willy Ngoma's killing
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[*]Ngoma died earlier this week in Masisi territory.
[*]A combat drone reportedly hit his convoy around 3:00 a.m.
[*]Nineteen people perished, and security detail members were among them.
[*]M23 pinned the strike on Congo's army, but Kinshasa stayed silent.
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Kinshasa's stance on M23
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[*]Congo's government labels M23 a destabilizing armed group.
[*]Military operations aim to restore state authority in the east.
[*]No official response to Erasto's remarks has surfaced yet.
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